Where-dunnit? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Boston

"Rizzoli and Isles" made its début on the TNT network in 2010 and ran for seven seasons concluding in 2016. The series was set in Boston, and featured a partnership between Jane Rizzoli (Angie Harmon) as a police detective and Maura Isles (Sasha Alexander) as a medical examiner.

Answer: Baltimore

"Homicide: Life on the Street" ran on NBC from 1993 through 1999 and was a highly regarded police procedural drama set in inner-city Baltimore. It featured a realistic and sometimes bleak view of the lives of policemen, and won several awards during its run. One of its characters, John Munch (Richard Belzer) was transferred to NBC's new show "Law & Order: SVU", where he was a major character for many seasons.

Answer: New York City

"Castle" was a more lighthearted police series that ran on ABC from 2009 to 2016. The show's premise was having Richard Castle, a successful writer of thrillers, consult with the NYPD in solving perplexing murders and other serious crimes. Castle (Nathan Filion) was paired with Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic), and much of the sub-plot of the series had to do with their developing relationship.

Answer: Las Vegas

This was the first entry in the "CSI" franchise, and was an unexpected hit when it débuted in October 2000. Set in Las Vegas it ran for fifteen seasons, having several major cast changes, with William Petersen (as Gus Grissom), Lawrence Fishburne (as Ray Langston), and Ted Danson (as D.B. Russell) each occupying the lead role in turn.

The show was responsible for the "CSI Effect" in the legal system, that juries came to expect more and more forensic evidence.

Answer: Honolulu

"Magnum P.I." was one of the most popular crime dramas of the 1980s. It starred Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a Vietnam vet, who has been hired by a wealthy recluse, Robin Masters, to look after the security of his estate near Honolulu in Hawaii. Robin Masters never appeared during the series' run, and there was much speculation that the manager of the estate, Jonathan Higgins (John Hillerman), was in fact the elusive owner.

Answer: Washington, DC

"NCIS" was originally called "NCIS: Navy Criminal Investigative Service" for its first year in 2003-2004. It was a spin-off from the successful series "JAG" (Judge Advocate General) and is centered around a team of investigators who deal with serious matters involving personnel from Navy or the Marines.

The lead character is Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon), whose complex past becomes gradually revealed as the show progresses. It spawned the series "NCIS: Los Angeles", "NCIS: New Orleans" and "NCIS: Hawaii".

Answer: Los Angeles

"Major Crimes" ran on the TNT network from 2012 to 2018. It was a continuation of an earlier series, also set in Los Angeles, "The Closer", many of whose characters continued on into the new series. The main character, Sharon Raydor, newly promoted to Captain of the Major Crimes division, was played by Mary McDonnell, and much of the sub-plot concerns her personal life, marrying a colleague and adopting a former street kid.

The final episodes of the series caused great controversy when a major character was killed off.

Answer: Philadelphia

"Cold Case" ran on CBS for seven seasons from 2003 to 2010. It was set in Philadelphia and featured a squad of police investigators of unsolved ("cold") cases in the Philadelphia area. It used a flashback technique to take viewers back to the original crime, often several years in the past. Kathryn Morris played the lead character, Lilly Rush, a homicide detective.

The show caused some controversy when it was alleged that it resembled too closely a Canadian series "Cold Squad", which had débuted five years before and which involved a similar premise and a blonde female lead.

Answer: Atlanta

"Matlock" gave Andy Griffith a chance to play a Southern US lawyer practising in Atlanta with a down-home folksy manner. Ben Matlock was a criminal defence attorney, who usually got his clients acquitted after a jury trial, by identifying the real criminals. The show ran for nine years (1986-1995), first on NBC and then on ABC.

Answer: Sacramento

"The Mentalist" ran on CBS for seven years (2008-2015) and starred Australian actor Simon Baker as Patrick Jane, who used his previous experience as a con artist and fake medium to consult with the California Bureau of Investigation, based in the state capital of Sacramento.

In the sixth and seventh season the show changed his consultancy to working for the FBI in Houston, keeping some of the characters from the original cast.

Answer: Miami

"Dexter", starring Michael C. Hall, ran for eight seasons (2006-2013) on the Showtime network. Its unusual protagonist, Dexter Morgan, works as a forensic technician for the Miami Metro Police Department as an expert in blood spatter, but is also a pathological serial killer of murderers who had otherwise escaped the courts of justice.

Despite this potentially risky premise, the series and its main character proved very popular with critics and the general viewing public.

Answer: Chicago

This show ran for three seasons (1989-1991), first on NBC and then on ABC. Tom Bosley played Father Dowling, a Catholic priest in Chicago, who with the assistance of Sister Stephanie (Tracy Nelson) solves murders and other serious crimes, often with the help of a friendly police office, Detective Sergeant Clancy (Regina Krueger).

It was a more light-hearted crime show, very much like Angela Lansbury's "Murder, She Wrote".

Answer: Sparta

"In the Heat of the Night" was a successful and popular spin-off of a novel in 1965 by John Ball and the Oscar-winning film (1967) that starred Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier. The TV show featured Howard Rollins as Virgil Tibbs, a black policeman from Philadelphia, who goes back to his (fictional) home town of Sparta, Mississippi, and forms a working relationship with the white chief of police (Caroll O'Connor).

It ran for eight seasons (1988-1995), first on NBC and then on CBS.

Answer: Cabot Cove

"Murder, She Wrote" was an immensely popular crime-solving series on CBS, running from 1984 to 1996. Angela Lansbury played Jessica Fletcher, a successful mystery writer who lived in the (fictional) village of Cabot Cove, Maine. Every week Jessica Fletcher would stumble upon and solve a murder, usually confounding the authorities.

This led critics to comment that Cabot Cove must be the murder capital of the world, given the number of dead bodies that turned up week by week. In season 8, she moved to New York to teach a course in criminology, with the result that more episodes were set in the city rather than a seaside town in Maine.

Answer: Durant

"Longmire" ran for three seasons (2012-2014) on the A&E network with considerable success, but when cancelled by that network, it was picked by Netflix and ran for three further seasons there (2015-2017). It was a mixture of a traditional Western and modern crime drama, with Robert Taylor playing Walt Longmire, sheriff of Absaroka Count in Wyoming, with other leads being his friend and local bartender, Henry Standing Bear (Lou Diamond Phillips) and his deputy Vic Moretti (Katee Sackhoff). Two major themes run through the series: the death of Walt's wife, suspected of being murder, and his re-election as sheriff.